Talbott v. Southern Oil Co.

Poffenbarger, Judge:

The Southern Oil Company, a corporation, against which E. M. Talbott obtained a judgment by default for the sum of two thousand dollars, in an action of trespass on the case in the circuit court of Gilmer county, for damages occasioned by failure, on the part of the defendant, to plug, as required by statute, an abandoned gas well, drilled by the defendant on lands of the plaintiff, under a lease authorizing such drilling, complains of the action of said court in refusing to quash the return of service, on its motion made in a special appearance for the purpose, and in…